King Khalid Military City Airfield Complex

King Khalid Military City (KKMC) ( مدينة الملك خالد العسكرية; transliterated: Madynat al-Malik Khalid al-'Askariyah) is a special city in northeastern Saudi, designed and built by the Middle East Division, a unit of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the 1970's and 1980's. ييي

It was built to provide lodging for several brigades of American and Saudi troops, with a design population of 65,000 people. The city is named after the former Saudi King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz.

Planning for the city began in 1974 and, after a new ArabianGulf port was built in Ra's al-Mish'ab to handle all the material being brought in, construction began. Built in collaboration with local national engineers and project managers, various phases of the project were completed throughout the 1980's.

The scope of the project was very large with 21 new wells being drilled to provide water, a new port for supplies, 3387 double story family housing units with utility tunnels, and 5 multi-dome mosques and associated facilities.

During the Gulf War, KKMC was used to house thousands of American and other coalition soldiers. Its airport was one of the most used during combat operations, along with bases in Dhahran and Riyadh, Saudi.

During the war, KKMC was protected from ballistic missiles by the U.S's Patriot missile system. On February 21, 1991 Iraq fired three Scud missiles at King Khalid Military City, which were reportedly destroyed by Patriot interceptors